Never Let Lose a Strand of Your Patience

Have you ever experienced a day wherein nothing seems to go well, that no matter how you try to choose the right path, you keep making the wrong turn? Just like having a bad hair day, no matter how many times you comb your hair, it just would not budge.

Life can be challenging at times but there will always be a way to resolve these challenges and come out victorious. Having this in mind will be easy to keep your patience and continue to move forward.

Just like losing strands of your hair due to factors beyond your control, you too can do something. 
Eat healthy – Eating the right food can alter your mood. Having low-level of folic acid in your body can cause anxiety, hence, food such as asparagus, avocado, salmon, and almond are recommended to fight stress hormones.
Stay calm – Listen to comforting music and reading feel-good stories can help switch you to a calm mood.
Exercise – Exercise releases endorphins that can relieve you from stress and anxiety.
Supplement –Taking in Vitamins such as B-complex can alter mood swings.
Don’t let your stress factors contribute to your hair loss. Letting yourself succumb to anxietywill definitely show up to your follicles and this can lead to more hair loss.

Hectic schedules and pressure from work, not to mention the pollution and filth outside easily make you feel unease and, at times, irritable. Slow down a bit, have fun and relax. There’s no better way to begin with your mane. 
Tip 1: The stroke of a comb can give you a soothing feeling while, at the same time, help unleash the natural oil of your hair.
Tip 2: Stay away from getting pigtails, hair weaves, braids and tight hair rollers, which can pull and stress your hair.
Tip 3: Avoid perming, straightening or coloring because they contain toxic chemicals that could cause damage to your locks.
Tip 4: Choose natural. Use NOVUHAIR topical solution. Apply liberal amount on to your scalp and hair. Massage it gently for -10 minutes to help permeate deeply from root to tip. NOVUHAIR is packed with 19 natural ingredients that help promote growth, nourishment and rejuvenation of your tress.

NOVUHAIR is available at Mercury Drug and other leading drugstores nationwide. For more information, please contact hotlines 4136570 and 09228830575 from Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm or visit www.novuhair.com

Manila Express Connecting Overseas Filipinos to the Philippines

Manila Express has been connecting overseas Filipinos in Canada to home since 1985. Top management team thru the leadership of Regina Victoria Y. De Ocampo and Emmanuel De Ocampo has prioritized the value of long years of relationship with their frequent customers built on trust and reliability, offering money transfer deliveries to the Philippines nationwide. Manila Express is the pioneer and one of the major players for 32 years now in the remittance business from Canada going to the Philippines with a network of 11 branches nationwide. Its strongest hold, British Columbia has 5 branches in West Broadway, Mainstreet, Richmond, Surrey and West Vancouver and have three branches in Calgary, one in Edmonton, one in Scarborough and another one in Winnipeg with  an exclusive agent in Montreal, and other agents in Whitehorse, Regina, Saskatoon, Camrose and Fort McMurray.

Services:

• Bank Deposit
• Cash Pickup
• Door to Door Cash Delivery
• Manila Express VISA Cash Card
• Government and other bills payment
• Gift Delivery
• Multi-Currency and Reverse Remittance
• Foreign Exchange

It also operates with another subsidiary, Manila Cargo Express.

It has full service branches across Canada, offering sea cargo shipment from Canada and to any part of the Philippines. It is one of the largest balikbayan box businesses in Canada with the fastest lead time in sending sea cargo to the Philippines.

Manila Cargo Express  upholds high quality from double ply corrugated balikbayan box to barcoding system for accuracy and tracking efficiency. They have an online tracking system and a set of efficient customer service representatives.

Full service branches are staffed during office hours with employees who are prepared to provide our clients with superior personal service.

For more information, check the website at http://www.manilaexpress-online.com/index.php

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Tour Ilocos Sur and take the challenge at CM CHALLENGE ILOCOS SUR on October 29, Sunday!

INCLUSIONS:

• 2 nights accommodation at Westcourt Inn
• Transportation for the whole duration of tour via air-conditioned VAN with Driver Guide.
• All Entrance Fees.
• Insurance (valid for 8yrs old – 70yrs old).
• Daily Breakfast based on number of stay inside Hotel.
• Tour of Ilocos Sur (Note: Itinerary can adjusted)

DAY 1:

• Breakfast at Hotel
• Bantay Church/ Bell Tower
• National Museum
• Calle Crisologo
• Syquia Mansion
• Crisologo Museum
• Pagburnayan Pottery
• Hidden Garden
• Lunch (on pax account)
• St. Paul’s Cathedral
• Dinner (on pax account)

DAY 2:

• Breakfast at Hotel
• Baluarte
• Lunch (on pax account)
• Abel Loom weaving
• Early Dinner (on pax account)
• Watch Dancing Fountain Show at Plaza Salcedo

DAY 3:

• Breakfast at Hotel
• Santa Maria Church
• Narvacan Shrine
• Lunch (on pax account)
• Quirino Bridge
• Adventure Zone

OPTIONAL TOURS
Adventure Zone:

• Sitting Zip line – Php 250/pax/way
• Superman Zip line – Php 300/pax/way
• Rappelling – Php 150/pax/2 attempts 
• Wall Climbing – Php 150/pax/2 attempts
• Kayaking – Php 150/pax/30 minutes
• Photo Booth – Php 50/copy
• Giant Swing – Php 180/single Php 300/twin

Note: Rate is based on minimum number of twelve (12) pax. If number of pax decreases, rate will increase. Rates quoted are subject to change without prior notice and subject to room availability, no booking has been made.

Color Manila Dares Runners to Conquer Obstacles at the Colorful CM Challenge Ilocos Sur on October 29

Color Manila Events Inc., the force that’s at the forefront of organizing colorful fun runs in the country heads up north to put on a thrill-filled, tough, fitness-driven and colorful fun run via CM Challenge Ilocos Sur this October 29, 2017 at the Tamag Open Grounds, Quirino Boulevard, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur.

Bring your friends along and take the challenge together at CM Challenge Ilocos Sur on October 29, Sunday! Assembly time is at 3:30.m.

Featuring an inflatable tire skip, spider maze, inflatable slide, and military crawl obstacles to transform runners into dauntless challengers, and color-coded routes to smother participants with color powders and vibrant vibes, CM Challenge Ilocos Sur sure knows how to strike a perfect balance between keeping you brave and blissful. Set in the historical and heritage haven, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, CM Challenge Ilocos Sur will surely take runners to a delightful trip down memory lane and cure those who have been bitten by the ever-contagious travel bug. The Color Festival featuring cool DJ mixes and melodies will surely hype up the runners’ mood and momentum, further expanding the fun portion in the run.

This isn't your usual fun run. Obstacles await runners after crossing the starting line.

“Color Manila has been and will always put a premium on spreading a holistic running experience that highlights festive and colorful fun run #feels throughout the Philippines, hence, after our previous CM Challenge Cebu, Laguna, Cavite, and Manila events have panned out, we continue to fan out the fun and pass on the challenge, and this time around, to Ilocos Sur. Come and join us as we skip, slide, hop, crawl, climb, and run, while having fun and snapping lots of photos at the CM Challenge Ilocos Sur!” encourages Color Manila VP Justin Cordero.

Runners will be awash with color at the signature CM Color Festival! 

Psyched up to take the challenge and run a 3K, 5K or 10K distance at the CM Challenge Ilocos Sur already? Purchase your Deluxe or Trooper kits now! At Php750.00, the Deluxe race kit includes a Dri-FIT shirt, race bib, sunglasses, color packet, and finisher’s medal, while the Trooper race kit, at Php1,050.00, comes with a Dri-FIT shirt, race bib, sunglasses, drawstring bag, headwear, color packet, and finisher’s medal.

Online registration is underway at colormanila.com up to October 29 or until supplies last. Onsite registration and kit claiming are also ongoing at the 2nd Floor, Provincial Capitol of Ilocos Sur, Vigan, Ilocos Sur until October 28, 2017, from 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M., and on October 29, 2017, from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.

CM Challenge Ilocos Sur is held in partnership with the Provincial Government of Ilocos Sur, and is supported by Royal Express Travel and Tours, Ariva Academy, Takbo.ph, WhenInManila.com, YuneOh, and SwimBikeRun.

Tired of the usual run and go home set-up of fun runs? It’s about time that you accept the CM Challenge Ilocos Sur experience and take your run to the next level! For more details on the run and other Color Manila events, visit www.colormanila.com!

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ABOUT COLOR MANILA
Now on its fifth year, COLOR MANILA has established itself as the most aggressive "concept fun-run" organizer in the country. Over 120,000 runners have participated in its various franchises, which include the CM Challenge, CM Blacklight, CM Costume, CM Glitter, and CM Classic. It has broken its own record with its biggest event to date, CMR5, which had 12,000 runners that participated last January 2017. Visit www.colormanilarun.com for more information.

"Teamwork makes the dream work" PRRC and TESDA to team up for a vision for ISF’s

The Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC), has been resettling informal settler families (ISFs) living along the banks of the Pasig River and its tributaries considered danger zones to safe, decent and socialized housing units provided by the PRRC, National Housing Authority (NHA) and concerned local government units (LGUs).

Since its creation in 1999 to present, the commission was able to resettle a total of 17,561 ISFs in resettlement sites established and/or managed by PRRC, NHA, and the City Government of Mandaluyong.

The beneficiaries of the resettlement program were provided with livelihood developments that were meant to hone the skills of the relocatees so they could use these for their own economic development. The skills they would have honed through the training should have helped them generate income. 

Job referrals and placement were vital components of the commission’s action plan as it ensured that the relocated households were not economically displaced. 

As of end of December 2008, a total of 2,516 families have participated in skills training provided by PRRC. The training included building wiring, welding, dressmaking, bakeshop operations, food processing, horticulture and others. 

Inasmuch as numerous training programs had already been implemented, it seems that only a few had benefited from these in terms of improving the economic status of the relocated families. Even with the skills the beneficiaries have learned from the training and seminars, some have reported of having difficulties securing start-up capital to put up businesses. Moreover, the beneficiaries needed skills training that would be able to help them realize sufficient income to address their daily needs.

Last October 5, 2017, the PRRC, led by Executive Director Jose Antonio E. Goitia, had exploratory talks with TESDA’s Director-General Hon. Guiling “Gene” A. Mamondiong and Deputy Director-General Rebecca Calzado to address the issues on post-resettlement economic conditions of the resettled families due to unemployment and lack of entrepreneurial opportunities in the relocation sites. 

Through the collaboration with TESDA, PRRC will embark on a project titled Pagsasanay Panghanapbuhay Tungo sa Riwasang Danay [Training for Work for Progressive Suburbs] Project to provide the families an access to adequate and appropriate technical education and skills development training and seminars.

Executive Director Goitia excitedly said that “PRRD Project aims to empower and build the capacity of the ISF’s to improve their lives through technical-vocational training” He also added that this, “[PRRD Project] is also to provide the unskilled, low-skilled, out-of-school youth, and women members of the ISFs with skills that would qualify them for entry-level wage employment, and that they could use to pursue self-employment in the services sector, or even in home-based, income-earning entrepreneurship activities." 

Both PRRC and TESDA recognize the urgent need to reduce poverty in the rural areas where most government-established and -managed resettlement sites are situated the project. The team up of PRRC with TESDA would intend to evaluate the skills training needs of the ISFs, recommend the training courses and methodologies as appropriate and providing the training through TESDA’s accredited training institutions.

Executive Director Goitia remarkably said that the collaboration of PRRC with TESDA is indeed a start of something new for all of us. He also added, “There is a Chinese proverb that goes, ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime’, I am envisioning a life full of hope and dreams for these families, hence, the project”.